Stephen Cognetti

Stephen Cognetti is an American director and writer known for the Hell House LLC franchise of found footage films.

Early life Cognetti was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and raised in Pennsylvania. He attended Temple University, where he studied film.

Career He released the first Hell House LLC film in 2015 with the intention of making a trilogy of movies, as he saw the initial three films as a single story split into three parts. Cognetti would later expand the original story with a fourth film that served as both a sequel and prequel, Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor, in 2023. In 2025, Cognetti released his first non-found footage film, 825 Forest Road. A fifth and final entry in the series, Hell House LLC: Lineage, was released in 2025.

Filmography Films

Short films Year Title Director Writer/Screenplay Producer 2009 Caravia Nights Bernie Waldoff Investment Securities IOU Capital 2011 Thomas Jefferson Lives